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Additional authors

1. Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971-
2. Gilbert, Suzanne

Description

1. viii, 216 pages : music; 25 cm.

Summary

1. This collection of essays explores the historical importance and imaginative richness of Scotland's extensive contribution to modes of traditional culture and expression: ballads, tales and storytelling, and song. Its underlying aim is to bring about a more dynamic and inclusive understanding of Scottish culture. Rooted in literary history and both comparative and interdisciplinary in scope, the volume covers the key aspects and genres of traditional literature, including the Gaelic tradition, from the medieval period to the present.

Series statement

1. Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature

Uniform title

1. Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.

Subject

1. Folk literature, Scottish -- History and criticism
2. Folk literature, Scottish Gaelic -- History and criticism
3. Folk songs -- Scotland -- History and criticism
4. Scottish literature -- History and criticism

Contents

1. The Roots of Living Tradition / Margaret Bennett -- Genre / Emily Lyle, Valentina Bold, Ian Russell -- Folk Belief and Scottish Traditional Literatures / Lizanne Henderson -- Transmission / James Porter -- 'Tradition' and Literature in the Medieval Period / John McNamara -- Vernacular Gaelic Tradition / Robert Dunbar -- The Early Modern Period / Sarah Dunnigan -- The Heroic Ballads of Gaelic Scotland / Anja Gunderloch -- Eighteenth-Century Antiquarianism / Valentina Bold -- Lowland Song Culture in the Eighteenth Century / Katherine Campbell and Kirsteen McCue -- Tradition and Scottish Romanticism / Suzanne Gilbert -- Nineteenth-Century Highland and Island Folklore / Jason Marc Harris -- Tradition and Innovation in Twentieth-Century Scottish Gaelic Literature / Michael Newton -- The Politics of the Modern Scottish Folk Revival / Corey Gibson -- Continuing the Living Tradition / Margaret Bennett.

Call number

1. JFE 13-8390

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

Title

1. The Edinburgh companion to Scottish traditional literatures / edited by Sarah Dunnigan and Suzanne Gilbert.

Publisher

1. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Copyright date

1. ©2013

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature
2. Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

Added author

1. Dunnigan, Sarah, 1971- editor.
2. Gilbert, Suzanne, editor.

LCCN

1. 2013362066

ISBN

1. 9780748645404 (hardback)
2. 0748645403 (hardback)
3. 9780748645398 (paperback)
4. 074864539X (paperback)
5. 9780748645411 (webready PDF)
6. 9780748684595 (epub)

Research call number

1. JFE 13-8390